Reading a book

A good video to have on the screen in the library and the year 7 common space. A great way to catch the boys attention  at the start of this school year.

CBCA Book of the Year 2010 Winners

I was very pleased that Jarvis 24 was the CBCA winner this year. This is a great book for the boys at our school. It is set in Melbourne, has Aussie Rules football as a background and a young man going through some easily  identifiable teenage concerns. I wrote a post about a video interview with David Metzenthen. In [...]

Turning the pages : Rare books from the British Library

What amazing opportunities we have now that we can digitize many very old and delicate original sources. The British Library has an Online Gallery called Turning the Pages.  Now pages of some of the world’s most protected, cherished, antiquarian books from the library’s collection are available to be viewed electronically. Once we would not have been able to [...]

More on E-books – 10 options

Today I have been looking at more e-books. The sites I looked at were mostly offering text downloads and many offered free options. This is not a complete or definitive list but they are the ones I like, were easy to access and I especially liked those that could add something extra eg annotating and commentating and some offer more [...]

Book Staircase

I love the shots from the Fubiz site, “a staircase that builds within the framework of a library of arrangements: the books are placed between the steps. Original and very practical, the whole of furniture was conceived by the studio Levitate Architects based in London.” Have a look at more of their fantastic photos of this [...]